Cashing Traveler Checks onboard?

[STARFISH*4]

anyone have recent experience doing this? specially on the SUN?

looking to take less cash for the 2 weeks and would like to have this option.

THANKS!

[Pokeraddict]

anyone have recent experience doing this? specially on the SUN?

looking to take less cash for the 2 weeks and would like to have this option.

THANKS!

Travelers checks are becoming less and less the currency of choice. Some business's including banks will charge service charge to cash them thats if they'll take them at all.

 

As for the ship we have expericnced once when reception would only cash $100 due to i think low cash early morning . Best bet would be to cash the night before at the casino.

[CruisinMaterial]

Taking Traveler's Checks with you on a cruise is the best thing to do. The guest reception onboard cashes them without issue. They have you countersign in front of them and put your room number down. They check the room number for the photo ID and then they cash them out. It's the easiest way to get cash onboard the ship. I do that to control the amount of cash I have on hand.

 

Shoreside in most of the Caribbean ports, Traveler's Checks are not taken. It's a shame because they're a really good way to travel with money. It's safer than having real cash because if they are lost or stolen you can call up AMEX from anywhere in the world, even collect, and report them stolen so at least the crooks don't get the money! :)

 

NCL has never given me an issue for cashing them out onboard and I never had to go to the casino to do it.

[Sam The Cat]

Never been on the Sun but other NCL ships. I have paid my deposit when you get on board with travelers checks and have cashed them when I needed cash either for the casino or going ashore Never a problem or was charged a fee. The only thing is that you can not use your room key to purchase a drink untill you put our deposit down on the ship since they will not take the travelers checks when you check in. My GF "got stuck: buying us a drink since I did not put down the deposit yet

[rajones007]

I always take travellers cheques. My bank gives them to me without any fee due to the chequing account I have (also, I think my Visa entitles me to no-fee travellers cheques too). I know they aren't as popular as they once were, but I believe that a cruise ship is one of the last places where they're easier, cheaper, and safer than any alternative, including using an ATM.

 

Reception cashes them without question. I cashed a crapload of them last week on the Star. They never questioned me, they just had me write NCL as the 'pay to the order of' line, counter-sign it, put my cabin number on it, and then sign the back* (???).

 

(* - yeah, signing the back confused me. I wonder if it's an American thing.)

[newmexicoNita]

anyone have recent experience doing this? specially on the SUN?

looking to take less cash for the 2 weeks and would like to have this option.

THANKS!

 

We have, until our last cruise always taken travelers checks and never had a problem. ON our last cruise we decided just to use cash, CC and our debit card. It worked well.

 

Nita

[jame_g]

Travelers Checks? Cash? What are these things of which you speak?

 

Welcome to the plastic, paperless, society! :D

[che5904]

We had no problems with cashing travelers cheques at the front desk, in the casino or just using them to pay down our onboard account.

 

Sorry I can't help you on banking fees since our bank does not charge us. But I have no idea what U.S. banks do. The ship doesn't charge any fees for using them.

[sjbdtz]

anyone have recent experience doing this? specially on the SUN?

looking to take less cash for the 2 weeks and would like to have this option.

THANKS!

 

 

Yes. Last week. Cashed @ the casino cage.

 

 

Zero problems.

 

 

 

 

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[garycarla]

Between plastic and maybe $2,000 in cash, we are in great shape. Just a pain to deal with those things.

 

Just my opinion, as I can not remember in all our travels actually losing track of our money.

[che5904]

Between plastic and maybe $2,000 in cash, we are in great shape. Just a pain to deal with those things.

 

Just my opinion, as I can not remember in all our travels actually losing track of our money.

 

Well in my defence for using travelers checks is that because no matter where I go, U.S., Caribbean, South America etc. They all take or convert from U.S. funds. It is alot easier for me to get 20/$100 travelers checks than it is to get $2000 in U.S. currency. Also this way I know exactly what I am paying the day I buy them, instead of the dealing with the fluxuation of currency exchange when it either is withdrawn from my bank account or recorded on my credit card.

 

I do not carry them for fear of losing track of my money.

[swedish weave]

Travelers Checks? Cash? What are these things of which you speak?

 

Welcome to the plastic, paperless, society! :D

 

Thanks for the laugh !!!!! I'm old enough to remember !!!:D

[che5904]

Thanks for the laugh !!!!! I'm old enough to remember !!!:D

 

I think they went the way of the 8 tracks.

[swedish weave]

I think they went the way of the 8 tracks.

 

OMG !! I remember them, too !!!!:D

[sassyshar]

Just off the Epic today, had a wonderful cruise. Opened two accounts for our cabin, one for myself and the other for DH. Put 400 in travelers checks down on each account. Cashed a couple during the week, and at the end of the cruise, had a credit amount showing on the statement. The statement delivered to your cabin states the credit amount will be mailed to you. I checked at the desk prior to disembarkation, and they will give you cash back, instead of having a check mailed to your home.

Traveler Checks sure did work for us.

[Pokeraddict]

Travelers checks are becoming less and less the currency of choice. Some business's including banks will charge service charge to cash them thats if they'll take them at all.

 

As for the ship we have expericnced once when reception would only cash $100 due to i think low cash early morning . Best bet would be to cash the night before at the casino.

 

 

Well maybe it had to do with the fact that we were on a 19 South America cruise, we only had trouble early morning and just switched to cashing them at the casino but now it's cc's all the way to stack up points.

[HowardK]

I went to AAA and they are offering them in groups of $50; either $150,$250, of $500.

 

I was planning on using them perhaps for my shuttle to and from the airport here in Philadelphia; perhaps for some casino charges etc...

[garycarla]

I went to AAA and they are offering them in groups of $50; either $150,$250, of $500.

 

I was planning on using them perhaps for my shuttle to and from the airport here in Philadelphia; perhaps for some casino charges etc...

 

Though I normally (always) deal in cash, I understand that some people like to deal with Travelors Cheaques.

 

 

But, to pay for a shuttle, I would strongly suggest doing cash, or in some case credit cards. Those poor drivers are not in a situation to deal with TC's. Why is cash a problem?

[STARFISH*4]

THANKS EVERYONE, doesnt look like we should have a problem with the checks!

[Barb Nahoumi]

I never had a problem cashing Travelers Checks on board. Once in Mexico, I noticed a fellow passenger having difficulty getting a shopkeeper to accept a travelers check.

 

They say that Cash is King, but in some instances, not.